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importance here because some conclusions drawn by Professor 
Bradley are regarded as founded in error, and the conclusions 
bear with force upon the question of the supposed age of the 
formations about Ducktown. The equivalents of the Tennes- 
see formations are given for the convenience of the reader. 
Nothing can be added to the description given by Professor 
Safford of the formations occurring in this section to Duck- 
town. From Cleveland to the mouth of the Ocoee gorge the 
regular succession of the beds of the Knox Group were crossed. 
ut few outcrops of the sandstone could be identified. (A 
still more marked absence of the sandstone is noticed in the 
4th section made south of this in Georgia.) After passing 
over the Knox and by the outcrop of the Chilhowee forming 
Starr’s Mountain, the Ocoee conglomerate is met about a half 
mile beyond Parke’s mill. The conglomerate is composed of 
small bullet to a pigeon’s egg. e rock is massive. The 
slates vary from a dark blue-black and dense, to grayish and 
greenish and less dense forms. The conglomerate and slates 
changed to S.H. The beds forming this anticlinal were com- 
sti of alternating layers of hydromica schists and gneiss 
wo miles east of Rice’s the hydromica schists were found 
containing staurolite and garnets; dip still SE. at high angles- 
